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Fearful Symmetries was published to great acclaim in May 2014. It's a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and has gotten (mostly) great reviews. Thank you again, for being supporters (and you can buy more for presents!)

3 months and still no news from the Chizine crowd Ellen - quite disappointing. I know $100 is not considered much but I was really into this project and having not had any contact since, probably indicates what will happen overall :(

Sorry, William. I've just passed your note on to Brett and Sandra. They should respond shortly. I"m not sure what happened to your original note (that I see below). I usually get an email alert from comments left here and I'm not sure I did this time.
Ellen Datlow

Hi Drew, You must not have seen the update in which Brett posted that he's not going to need mailing addresses until closer to when the book will be out in 2014. We have received several hundred responses though so I'm not sure what went wrong when you got a broken link...I'll ask Brett. Sorry for the trouble.

Kymberlie: I sent an email afterwards to ask for the titles because I forgot to ask in the original email. Please let us know now, yes! You can email me directly with your choices, if you like (and if you can't find the email I'm talkinhg about): brett@chizinepub.com

I've backed a few but never did one before. It's been a fascinating experiment. I think I'll write about my experience once we're backed and I have a few minutes in between other stuff. I hated pushing it so much initially --makes me feel like a nag and "see me see me" --weird. But these last two days I've been forcing myself to ask writer/friends to spread the word (rather than ask them to pledge money) and boy, they did (including John and Neil Gaiman and some others who are widely read in the sf/f/h community. I can see all those names of those who've pledged and most of them are total strangers. Which is very cool :-).
I plan to thank everyone who's helping to make it happen.

Thanks Carlos--I've seen Reddit but am not sure how it works. Let me confer with Chizine to see if we could do that together...
The problem with the webcast is that none of us live in the same place. I'll ask Matt Kressel, who's been an enormous help with this, about doing it.

Hi there--Carlos Hernandez here. Let me strongly recommend that you plan and run a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" very soon. On my project, it made a very big difference, and with your experience and name-recognition, you may very well see a large bump. Also, please know that most projects make most of their money in the last few days. So you might consider running a live webcast event with some of your awesome writer-buddies on as guests. I've seen projects skyrocket in the last few days. Keep the faith, and good luck!

Unless we can get some push and further publicity out there, this dog ain't gonna hunt. I will personally be bummed out if for no other reason than the rewards are pretty cool. The project is pretty cool too so let's seed this around where interested people are likely to find it! If you are a backer and really want to see this go, get out there!

Already pledged for the paperback/ebook combo, but is there any way to add a pledge tier between $35 and $75? Like one that adds a couple ChiZine ebooks to the paperback and ebook editions of Fearful Symmetries(i.e. a tier that would combine the $25 and $35 level)?

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